Collar-button



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' NIBAM MUDGE, OF ALBION, MICHIGAN.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 2&1,877, dated May 24,1881.

Application filed April 8, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NIRAM MUDGE, of Albion, in the county of Calhoun andState of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Collar-Buttons, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and usefulimprovements in devices for securing the ends of gen tlemens collarstogether and to the band of the shirt, whereby such fastening may beeasily accom plished and collars of ditlerent sizes may be made to fitthe band.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of the various partsand their combination and operation, as more fully hereinafterdescribed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved collar-fastener. Fig. 2 isa sectional view, showing the device applied to aportion of ashirt-collar, and also showing the ends of the collar in place.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Arepresents the detachable head of a collar button or stud of theordinary construction. To the face of this stud is secured, bysolderiug'or otherwise, the loop B, whose bar, a, is serrated, as shown,said serrations being turned inward.

O is a rod extending through the loop B, and upon it is hinged the leverD by means of small loops 0, between which and around the rod issituated the coil-spring cl. The upper end of this spring is secured tothe lever, and its lower end rests against the face of the button, sothat it will cause the short arm of the lever to press forcibly towardthe serrations on the bar a. The short arm of this lever is alsoserrated, and when resting against the inner face of the bar at theseserrations fall within the serrations upon said bar, the spring beingarranged to keep the lever at all times in this position, exceptwhenforce is applied to the other end of the lever.

In practice the stud is put into the shirtneckband in the usual way,after which the serrated end of the lever is separated from the serratedbar aby pulling its long end outward, and the ends of the collar arethen inserted in opposite directions through the loop, between theserrated end of the lever and the serrated bar'a, after which the leveris released, so as to allow the spring to close the serrated edge of thelever against the serrations of the bar a, thereby firmly holding theends of the collar between the two serrated edges, as represented inFig. 2.

I am aware that it is not new to make shirt studs with spring-clasps,and that studs have been made with separable heads, and therefore I donot broadly claim either of said inventions.

\Vhat claim as .my invention is- 1. In combination with a collar buttonor stud, the loop B, provided with a serrated bar, a, lever D, having aserrated edge, rod 0, and spring (I, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

2. A clasp consisting of a loop, B, provided with a serrated bar, a, arod, 0, lever D, and spring (Z, in combination with a collar button orstud with a detachable head, substantially as and for the purposesspecified.

NIRAM MUDGE.

Witnesses H. S. SPRAGUE, E. SOULLY.

